Former WWE star and a former five times WWE World Champion Daniel Bryan who is currently working by his previous name Bryan Danielson recently revealed how he fell in love with professional wrestling again while working in the empty arenas.
Along with Bryan Danielson, every professional wrestler was forced to work behind closed doors for over a year because of the terrible covid-19 pandemic that not only struck the world of professional wrestling but every single thing in the world. Every show had to take place behind closed doors, whether they were sports shows or anything else.
Bryan Danielson Explains How He Fell In Love With Wrestling While Working In The Empty Arenas
But things are very much normal once again. Fans have started to visit arenas. Along with the WWE every other sports entertainment shows has started to welcome fans in their arenas. During this terrible time period, one thing was very well understood, without fans nothing could be enjoyable at the fullest. Fans are one of the biggest attractions of any show without any doubt.
A lot of professional wrestlers and entertainers have explained how difficult it had been for every one of them to work behind closed doors. Without the cheers of the fans everything felt so empty. A lot of professional wrestlers made their mind clear that they would never want to go back to such an era ever after. But a lot of professional wrestlers also explained what they learned from this covid 19 pandemic situation. The biggest lesson that everybody learnt was the importance of a life crowd. Without fans every show is incomplete.
Daniel Bryan who is currently working by his previous name Bryan Danielson recently spoke on the ABC6 in Philadelphia program where he revealed how he fell in love with professional wrestling again while working in the empty arenas. He said;
“I started really re-loving wrestling during the pandemic again. Empty arena wrestling reignited my love for wrestling. To me, it was such a unique challenge. It was like, ‘Oh my gosh’ and when we were in the Performance Center, there was no people, there was no extra audio.
“There was no crowd sweetening, there was nothing and I loved it! Because it was such a unique challenge as far as like, ‘Woah, what even is wrestling? How do you even present this?’ And you know, some people just do their same old thing and whatever it is. That clearly doesn’t work with no crowd and so, it made me look at wrestling differently, it challenged me.
“It was a lot of fun. But then, my daughter’s going into pre-school and I was just like, ‘You know what? Maybe it’s just time for me to just be a dad.’ All these conflicting ideas about what I wanted out of my life. So, and then kind of settled on I thought 40 was gonna be the tipping point where I was just like, ‘Okay, physically I won’t be able to do what I wanna be able to do.’ Turns out I’m 40 and I feel great so…
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